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[edit] Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia.

Thank you for your recent contributions. Please consider creating an account and logging-in, which has many benefits. In the meantime, here are some useful links if you need any help:

One thing I'd like to note is that not leaving a meaningful "edit summary" is poorly-regarded. We would all be grateful if you started adding such notes.

Again, welcome and please do consider creating an account. Stewart Adcock 18:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! You've made quite a few edits already, so you don't seem to have a problem following our first policy rule, which is to always be bold! I'd like to invite you to register an account at Wikipedia.

Since you're new, I'd like to discuss your recent edits at the pages Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader. While editing boldly is the most important form of collaboration at Wikipedia, when two or more editors disagree about an editing decision, instead of engaging in an "edit war" by continually reversing each other's edits, it's generally considered better to discuss the dispute on the talk page. Talk:Anakin Skywalker already has the discussion I had with another user about the dispute you were involved with, so you might want to check that and add your thoughts. As you'll see on the talk page, Wikipedia also has many policies and guidelines that we follow in order to make things smooth and consistent, so in an editing dispute it's often a good idea to consult the policies involved.

I hope you don't take the dispute personally, because we'd love to have you aboard! Thanks for your work, we truly appreciate having new members, and we hope you'll stick around!

— Phil Welch 07:32, 8 May 2005 (UTC)


Hey, I'd just like to say I really like some of the updates you've made to the Batman page. You really should register, that way you can get credit for some of the good stuff you've been posting. --CaptainCrash 05:09, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Physics

Hi, I just noticed that, beside all the good work you did on this article, you recapitalized nature. I see no reason to capitalize nature any more than any other word. Why do you? --MarSch 2 July 2005 13:56 (UTC)

[edit] NUMB3RS

Thank you for helping edit Wikipedia! I am not familiar with the term "universalist" as you have used it. There might be some confusion because "polymath" has synonyms ("Homo universalis" and "Uomo Universale") meaning "Universal Man"; it does seem that "polymath" fits in the sentence and conveys the intended meaning, and Wikipedia has an article about "polymath" but not about your meaning of "universalist". Universalist is a disambiguation page where every sense is about the religous kind. Please help us find an article describing your meaning of "universalist" - or start an article on that meaning - because there does not seem to be a listing for "universalist" at the universalist page with a sense similar to polymath. Thanks for helping, again! Feel free to leave a message on my talk page. AySz88^-^ 23:12, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image use in Wikipedia

Hello. You may want to read Wikipedia:Image use policy and Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. We need to avoid copyright violations. Thanks. -- PFHLai 22:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Albert Einstein

I have to say that I think the change you made is really ugly (breaks up flow, awkward diction). If you absolutely must call Einstein "the father of modern physics", can you please revise what you wrote to read much more gracefully? TIA---CH (talk) 18:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Since you've got an Einstein section in your talk page already - "simple", for instance, is a judgment, it's either POV or it needs a reference to an accepted source. I didn't think your edits added much value to the article, which is already above Wikipedia guidelines for size. --Alvestrand 23:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oppenheimer, "brilliant"

The problem with using terms like "brilliant" and "exceptionally" brilliant as descriptions is two-fold: first, it is an unattributed POV statement; second, where would one stop? On the first part, it is not hard to work in somewhere in the article body that "his contemporaries considered him unusually brilliant" or something else which attributes the opinion ("He was the smartest man I knew," said Professor So-and-so), and all things which are subjective gradings of that nature must be attributed (we wouldn't describe Senator McCarthy as "paranoid" or "hateful" in the opening sentence on him, even if it was likely true and most people thought of him that way). On the second part, if we start by calling Oppenheimer "brilliant", who else need we start calling "brilliant" as well? The list of subjectively "brilliant" people on Wikipedia would be huge, in part because as an encyclopedia, it will tend to include a lot of people who were exceptionally good at what they did. So, aside from being incompatible with our neutrality policy, it is just a bad project to get started on in the first place. I hope that makes sense. --Fastfission 15:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copying from Encarta

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Howard Hughes, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! -Will Beback 23:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albert Einstein image

That image is of dubious quality (it is obviously a bad scan out of a book), and of very dubious copyright standard (it is not a "web screenshot", and the main image should be one of free use where possible). There's nothing wrong with the other one at all, either. And don't remove {{PUI}} tags until it has been resolved on that page. The "nationality" information is written in that way because if you just write "German-American physicist" or something like that, someone will undoubtedly come along and change it to "Jewish-American" and then "German-Jewish-Swiss-American" and so forth. People have been doing that endlessly over the past year, highlighting whatever aspect of his complicated identity they want to, and in the end it was decided by most of the editors that having a short paragraph at the top which included all of this information was the best way to defray this. Until you came along, it worked perfectly! So please leave it the way it was. --Fastfission 17:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Listen, if you have a problem with the image used for the Einstein page, please discuss it on Talk:Albert Einstein first. The images you are replacing it with are of problematic copyright status (see [1]) which hasn't completely been worked out yet. Personally I don't see why you are intent on replacing the current image, which seems fine to me, but in any event it would be better facilitated if you discussed the changes first. --Fastfission 21:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)